A

Collection of the Cases

DECIDED UNDER THE 2ND SECT. OF

THE RAILWAY AND CANAL TRAFFIC ACT, 1854,

AND

Reports of Cases

DECIDED BY THE RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS

UNDER

THE REGULATION OF RAILWAYS ACT, 1873;

WITH THE

Statutes and Notes.

ALSO A

DIGEST OF CASES ON RAILWAY AND CANAL TRAFFIC.

BY

RALPH NEVILLE, M.A.,

OF LINCOLN'S INN, AND

WALTER H. MACNAMARA,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQUIRES, BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

LONDON:

HENRY SWEET, 3, CHANCERY LANE,
Law Bookseller and Publisher.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH AND SONS,

NEWTON STREET, W.C.

PREFACE.

In order to render the present Volume, so far as possible, a compendium of the law now administered by the Railway Commissioners, we have endeavoured, by the references contained in the notes, to collate the passages in the judgments which throw light upon the somewhat intricate questions connected with the receiving and forwarding of traffic, and the equal treatment of the public by railway and canal companies. In the Digest, also, will be found analogous cases decided by the Courts of Law and Equity under the equality and other restrictive clauses inserted in, or incorporated with, the special acts of most of the railway companies in the United Kingdom.

The judgments of the reported cases collected in this Volume have, in every instance, been retained intact ; but as they generally contain a full statement of the facts, it has been found possible to effect a considerable